“Dr. Robert J. Bunker has been working for the last few years on assessing the potential use of body cavity bombs (BCB) or body cavity suicide bombs (BCSB) as a variation of suicide bombing tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).1 Sadly or on the indications and warning (I&W) side fortunately, it seems by careful analysis of transactions and signatures, trends and potentials, and capabilities and intentions (i.e., the Transaction Analysis Cycle)2 Dr. Bunker has forecast a terrorist innovation” (*shoving a bomb up their asses is an innovation now? roll out the preflight xrays for everyone!)

Awareness of this barbaric potential has been increasing among the security services. For example, the French intelligence service has warned of a new terrorism threat from suicide bombers carrying in-body explosives that can’t be detected by standard airport screening

Red Team Journal is pleased to welcome Dr. Robert J. Bunker to the RTJ advisory board. Dr. Bunker is CEO of the Counter-OPFOR Corporation, a security consulting company focusing on strategies to mitigate and respond to threats posed by non-state opposing forces (OPFORs). Dr. Bunker served as 2006-2007 Futurist in Residence (FIR), FBI Academy, Quantico, VA., and was a founding member of the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning (TEW) Group. He is a former consultant to the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) West; past Fellow, Institute of Land Warfare (ILW), Association of the US Army; and former Adjunct Professor, National Security Studies Program, California State University San Bernardino. His publications include the edited works Non-State Threats and Future Wars; Networks, Terrorism and Global Insurgency; and Criminal-States and Criminal-Soldiers. He can be reached at pradatorius at counter-OPFOR dot com.

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All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately

"Ultimately, however, it is going to require some sort of reliable and medically safe form of body cavity imaging of human beings, in addition to exterior body scans, that is quick enough to make it economically feasible in airport security settings with their potentially long passenger ques. Until the future fielding of such advanced scanning devices, we can now expect to be attacked individually, and just as likely attacked in clusters, by Al Qaeda operatives carrying body cavity suicide bombs inside of themselves on commercial airliners."